Although a poll of ~1600 people does seem like kind of a small sample size . . .

Thanks for the small shred of hope 🙏

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I keep trying to post this to World News on BH but it then it ends up on lemmy.ml instead!

Because far too many US Dems are cowards who live in fear of the conservative news media who will claim, no matter what they do, that they are “soft on crime.”

Can Biden win without the youth vote? Does he even want to win?

Maybe play around with this a bit?

Hey, hey, genocide Joe, how many Palestinians left to go?

I’m not very good at this 🙁

Hey, hey, genocide Joe … ?

Biden=LBJ?

We did this by voting “no preference” in the primaries.👍

I would recommend instead to specifically voice your concerns to Biden or to your congresspeople. It won’t do all that much, but it will do infinitely more than just silently voting and nothing else.

Done and done 👍. The next bit is a bit trickier tho …

Ah, well then there is a definite dilemma there.

I can get away with it because I’m fortunate enough to live in a very blue state; if Biden can’t win my home state, then he’s got bigger problems than the hedgemeister not voting for him. I’m all ears if you have a better suggestion.

Didn’t read yet (but will) . . . “may” be violating international law?! Bold statement indeed.

EDIT: Biden has basically forced me to not vote for him over this; I’ll be leaving the box blank next to his name.

EDIT EDIT: This does not mean I’ll be voting for Trump!

Ok, this is the hedgemeister being really nutty here, but this makes me think of Planet of the Apes (the original, not the remakes), in which there’s some sort of plague that kills off everyone’s dogs and cats, but doesn’t affect apes, who are then taken as pets instead. For some reason this causes them to evolve and take the place of humans as the dominant species. The law of unintended consequences! So along the same lines, if coffee beans go extinct, what if a synthetic alternative is created which accidentally makes humans telepathic, or better yet, removes their need for sleep? If there’s a sci-fi story in there somewhere, please feel free to take it and run with it. As for me, I think it’s time for a lie down . . .

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Yes, lack of housing is a serious problem that needs to be fixed. I would have supported the January 6th insurrectionists if they were demanding housing and an end to corporate bribery instead of trying to extend the reign of the fascist orange turd 🍄

The 21st century hasn’t been terribly nice so far. We had the 2000 US presidential election fiasco, 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq, hurricane Katrina with the Federal govt essentially telling the people of Louisiana to go and fuck themselves; let’s see, then there’s the 2008 finanicial crisis, the 2016 election of Trump (and I’m not so thrilled with Obama’s presidency in retrospect, tho he did give us Obamacare, for what it’s worth), then the Jan 6th insurrection, the pandemic, and just as it seemed like that might be winding down, Russia invaded Ukraine, and when that seemed like it entered into a stalemate, then Hamas attacked Israel and Israel responded with collective punishment of Gaza. I’m sure I’m forgetting lots of other important stuff (there are ongoing wars in the Congo we never hear about), but those are the things that stick out to me. Humanity is exhausted and demoralized; birthrates in many places around the world are taking a nosedive. I’m fortunate to only have been personally affected by the finanicial crisis and COVID, lots of other people have had it much worse. Someone will probably respond that it’s all a matter of perspective, and they’d be right, of course; perhaps I was spoiled by the relatively stress-free 90s. Maybe things will get better? I think it’s past time they did. Anyway, thus endeth my rant, thanks for reading.